The San Diego Padres are 7-0 after a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians at Petco Park on Wednesday afternoon.
The large story of the sport was middle fielder Jackson Merrill’s two-run homer within the third to provide the Padres a 4-0 lead. His 388-foot shot into proper middle could not have come at a greater time, as a result of earlier within the day the Padres had given him an enormous nine-year, $135M contract extension that he immediately made good on.
Merrill, 21, is hitting .417 this early season with an OBP of .444. He has 10 hits, two house runs and eight RBI to date.
That house run received the headlines and it was the feel-good story of the day, however the backdrop to all of it is that San Diego’s 7-0 begin is historic.
That is the most effective begin in franchise historical past by the Padres, and so they’re taking part in unbelievable baseball. They swept the Atlanta Braves to begin the season and have now swept the Guardians.
The Padres are second in MLB in crew batting average at .299 and first in team ERA at 1.50. They’re doing it with each offense and protection.
“It’s simply been nice baseball all the best way round,” Fernando Tatis Jr. mentioned, in accordance with AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. “We now have a terrific ballclub over right here, and we got here out of the gate on the fitting foot.”
“It’s simply good baseball each night time,” supervisor Mike Shildt added. “… We are able to beat you in a number of other ways.”
Maybe extra spectacular than their historic begin is the truth that the Padres have been capable of match the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers (additionally 7-0) within the NL West.
Up subsequent for San Diego is an away sequence in opposition to the Chicago Cubs.
